epub |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]
53. Let us now look at the main point: for which one of them was the actual spot where they came to blows more convenient? Jurors, is that something that ...

epub |eng | 2017-12-08 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]
So I went on. ‘In gaiety and wit,’ I continued, ‘Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus, son of Lucius, outdid all his contemporaries and his predecessors as well.3 His oratory was ...

epub |eng | 2006-10-17 | Author:Arthur Koestler [Koestler, Arthur]
6 The day before the term set by Ivanov expired, at the serving out of supper, Rubashov had the feeling that there was something unusual in the air. He could ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:William Styron [Styron, William]
A TIDEWATER MORNING During the late summer of 1938, there was black news of the onrushing war. I had just turned thirteen, and I had a newspaper route that carried ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:William Styron [Styron, William]
And now I began to look forward to the coming of the Reverend Eppes, but it took an almighty long time for him to fetch me. All morning I sat ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:William Styron [Styron, William]
Chapter Eleven “SON THE NORTH BELIEVES it has a veritable patent on virtue,” my father said, gingerly stroking with a forefinger his shiny new black eye. “But of course, the ...

epub |eng | 2017-05-06 | Author:Edgar Rice Borroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]
8. ON BOARD THE SOFAL Hovering just above us, I saw what at first appeared to be five enormous birds; but which I soon recognized, despite my incredulity, as winged ...

epub |eng | 2017-05-06 | Author:Edgar Rice Borroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]
XIV. — ON TO THURIA Although I had realized the likelihood of our strange craft being discovered by a patrol boat, I had hoped that we might escape from the ...

epub |eng | 2017-05-06 | Author:Edgar Rice Borroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]
XI. — THE NET DRAWS CLOSER THE next day, as I was making my rounds of the prison, I took it upon myself to inquire of a number of the ...

epub |eng | 2017-05-06 | Author:Edgar Rice Borroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]
CHAPTER II That was a good little ship—staunch and swift, as are all the ships of The Black Pirates of Barsoom—and it carried us past the farthest camp fires before ...

epub |eng | 2000-10-31 | Author:Miguel De Cervantes & Samuel Putnam [De Cervantes, Miguel]
“For all of that,” observed Don Quixote, “they might well have said nothing about them; for there is no need of recording those events that do not alter the veracity ...

epub |eng | | Author:Miguel Cervantes
IV In which Sancho Panza satisfies the doubts, and answers the questions of the bachelor Sansón Carrasco; with other incidents worthy to be recited and known. SANCHO RETURNING TO his ...